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If someone goes to port 80 of my droplet, I would like them to be redirected to my business website. How can I set that up?

Ubuntu 16.04.02 x64

Redirect to www.apollos-dev.com

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Danny B • July 27, 2017
Accepted Answer

Redirex looks like it will do what you need in place of a full web server. I haven’t tried it myself, but it looks in line with your needs.

Also, a 301 redirect would be a better choice. Meta redirects are slower, break the web browsers ‘back’ button and can have negative SEO implications.

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Andy Deglado • July 26, 2017

I answered my own question.

I installed lighttpd, opened port 80 in the firewall, edited /var/www/html/index.lighttpd.html so that it contained the following:

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL='http://mydomain.com'" />
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

… and I’m good to go. If there is another way of doing it without using the minimal resources that lighttpd uses, please let me know.

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